Italian Anonymous Hacker Cell Arrested

jojo_it writes "Three hackers, part of Anonymous Hacker Group, have been identified and arrested after an Italian-Swiss investigation. The cell performed several attacks against Italian government websites and 'relevant Italian companies.'"

Comments

It's been said before

[SeeSp0tRun]

Once caught, you are no longer in Anonymous.
Identified =/= Anonymous

Re:It's been said before

[Aladrin]

It's the best representation of a slashed equals sign that you can write in ASCII. It makes perfect sense.

Re:It's been said before

[TheCarp]

Unless you are familiar with C, or any of its derivative languages, all of which chose !=

Meaning that != is already pretty widely understood, and uses one less char, making it 33% better!

Re:It's been said before

[matazar]

I disagree.
This is the first I've seen =/= and I've always used !=.

Re:It's been said before

[GameboyRMH]

Ten bucks says they arrested more innocent people who ran an IRC server or something.

"Hacker Cell"

[Anonymous Coward]

As in an implied terrorist cell

Anonymous is just a bunch kids who hang out on IRC and exercise their social conscious in a slightly unconventional manner. The only reason anybody in a position of authority gives a fuck is because they seem to be rather good at highlighting how much the status quo consists of governments indentured to abusive corporate interests.

So I'm guessing protest hacking is now a terrorism on a par with suicide bombers.

Re:"Hacker Cell"

[smelch]

Dude.... how are you 100% positive none of these people frequently work with each other? It seems pretty bizarre of you to be faced with an article about how these three guys frequently worked together under the Anonymous name and you are insisting there is no grouping. Groupings don't have to be permanent, but you're in an article about three people who were caught working together under the name of anonymous telling me that I have a rotten brain because I don't see that none of them ever work together as a group? What the fuck, your point of view isn't even verifiable in any manner. They're anonymous, how can you know some of them don't work together frequently? You can't, so don't spew this shit at me, that I'm the one who is retarded. You're the one spouting off unverifiable bullshit that you can't know as fact, I'm the one looking at facts and commenting on them. I'm the one who is mentally ill?

Your attitude is exactly what pisses me off about any discussion involving Anonymous. I'm not saying they're one monolithic, top-down organization with secret decoder rings that you can send away for when you've collected 5 Guy Fawkes masks. To deny any grouping or association at all is fucking retarded in the face of proof from multiple countries of multiple people working together in the name of Anonymous. Your logic is flawed, your assertions have no backing (and by their very nature can't be proved, but can be disproved as they have been [which you ignore while accusing others of ignoring your proof by assertion]), and you sit there covering your fucking ears like a little baby, screaming at the top of your lungs trying so hard to be heard that you've long since stopped listening.

And the worst part is instead of concluding you were wrong and there are sub-groupings under the banner of Anonymous that can be taken out (especially the vocal ones that harp on a subject repeatedly) you and others like you will conclude that since there are no sub-groupings this must be false arrest. Sure, you can't defeat Anonymous any more than you can defeat "Hippies", it doesn't work that way. That doesn't mean you can't track clusters of them that commonly associate. And when you find a cluster, what should we call them? Three members of anonymous with ties to each other that are not a cell, cluster, group, clique, platoon, commune, council, panel, herd, flock, pride, or blessing [of Unicorns]?

There's a seriously stupid thing there

[erroneus]

Once again, I always thought it was too obvious to even talk about it because I presumed Anonymous participants (I hesitate to say "member") were smart enough not to hack on things within their own country. So like, if you were in the US, don't go hacking on US servers... (additionally, don't hack from a country with an extradition treaty.) So Italians were caught hacking on Italian servers... brilliant. I never thought anyone would be that stupid.

Re:There's a seriously stupid thing there

[Dinghy]

Having worked in customer service I can say that every time someone says "I never thought anyone would be that stupid," someone will prove you wrong.

Re:Wow.

[dc29A]

1. Police notice suspect activities from a number of wi-fi connections in (insert area name here) owned by computer illiterate people.
2. Police start their own 'open' wi-fi connections in this area.
3. Police start videotaping people who come around this area and gather information about the people they notice coming to wi-fi connection.
4. They realize one is pretty good with computers.
5. They get a warrant and surprise this hacker at 5AM in his mother's basement.
6. Hacker has no time to destroy evidence form his machines and it's caught.
7. ????
8. Hacker gets his ass pounded after he becomes Big John's bitch in prison.

A hacker "cell"

[ub3r n3u7r4l1st]

So when bin Laden is gone, the authorities are equating script kiddies with terrorist, and refer to their hideout as their "cell".